Johnny Knoxville to star in "Hawaiian Dick" movie
04-21-04, 08:53 AM
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Johnny Knoxville to star in "Hawaiian Dick" movie
Knoxville Picks 'Dick'
By Borys Kit
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "Jackass" creator Johnny Knoxville (news), famed for stomach-churning acts of self-mutilation, is pegged to star in a feature based on the comic book "Hawaiian Dick."
New Line Cinema has bought the rights to the comic and is developing it as a starring vehicle for Knoxville.
Set in 1953, "Dick" tells the story of a down-on-his-luck big-city detective who is exiled to Hawaii. While there, he gets involved in a kidnapping case of a local island girl who turns up dead but won't stay that way.
The comic, by B. Clay Moore and Steven Griffin, first appeared as a three-issue series in 2002 from Image Comics.
Knoxville is onscreen in "Walking Tall" with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, and next appears in "The Ringer." He is filming "Lords of Dogtown."
By Borys Kit
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "Jackass" creator Johnny Knoxville (news), famed for stomach-churning acts of self-mutilation, is pegged to star in a feature based on the comic book "Hawaiian Dick."
New Line Cinema has bought the rights to the comic and is developing it as a starring vehicle for Knoxville.
Set in 1953, "Dick" tells the story of a down-on-his-luck big-city detective who is exiled to Hawaii. While there, he gets involved in a kidnapping case of a local island girl who turns up dead but won't stay that way.
The comic, by B. Clay Moore and Steven Griffin, first appeared as a three-issue series in 2002 from Image Comics.
Knoxville is onscreen in "Walking Tall" with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, and next appears in "The Ringer." He is filming "Lords of Dogtown."
04-21-04, 01:11 PM
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Hawaiian Dick.
Not to be confused with his other film, Life Without Dick.
I wonder are the casting agents bitterly trying to tell him something.
Not to be confused with his other film, Life Without Dick.
I wonder are the casting agents bitterly trying to tell him something.
04-21-04, 09:47 PM
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Hawaiin Dick is one of the most original comics to come out the past few years & really a beautiful looking piece of work. I can't wait for the much delayed follow up & Knoxville actually does look the part for the character, but I just can't stand the guy even though I've never actually seen him in anything but Jackass.
